As Aung San Suu Kyi marks her 10th year of detention, Thailand should support a more proactive approach. Aung San Suu Kyi must be a lady of steel to tolerate the combined 10 years of detention by the military junta in Rangoon. The junta hopes that she will simply languish in house arrest and everything will be fine, because nobody will remember her.

HARD TALK: Time to retire the anti-Malaysia rhetoric

At the height of the war of words between the Thai and Malaysian governments over the continuing insurgency in southern Thailand a few weeks ago, two commentators of a popular radio news programme called Malaysia an “untrustworthy friend”.

Thailand marks UN’s 60th anniversary

The abridged address by Dr Surakiart Sathirathai, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand, yesterday on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the United Nations at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok.